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Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games
The games were mentioned in a 2024 report and are now part of a new lawsuit in which a 11 year old girl was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted after meeting a stranger on Roblox.
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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
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Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.
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ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It
Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.
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'It's Not a Political Statement': Checking in With Tesla Superfans at Elon Musk's New Diner
The Tesla Diner has two gigantic screens, a robot that serves popcorn, and owners hope it will be free from people who don't like Tesla.
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Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
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A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors
Infostealer data can include passwords, email and billing addresses, and the embarrassing websites you use. Farnsworth Intelligence is selling to divorce lawyers and other industries.
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Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images
404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.
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Steam Bends to Payment Processors on Porn Games
Steam, which has hosted sex games for years, says developers must now comply with the standards of payment processors and financial institutions.
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The Real Future of AI Is Ordering Mid Chicken at Bojangles
This month I ordered a meal at the Bojangles drive-thru in South Carolina, which is now using AI. This is how AI becomes the background noise of the world.
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3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought
Early studies show that 3D printers may leave behind similar toolmarks on repeated prints.
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Immigration Raid Tracking App ‘ICE Block’ Keeps Your Data Private, Researcher Finds
The app, which jumped to the top of an App Store chart, lets users report sightings of ICE officials.